Boy Scout gets pizza for turning in $800

ALLEGAN, Mich., May 1 (UPI) -- The mother of a Michigan Boy Scout says she is proud of her son, whose honesty in turning in $800 won him a pizza party from state police.

John Robert Bouterse, 11, was honored this week for handing over a wallet full of cash lost by Wayland, Mich., resident Jessica Cutler, 20, some six months ago, the Grand Rapids (Mich.) Press reported Wednesday.

"I knew exactly how she felt," the scout said.

Cutler, a manager at Burger King, said she was saving up the cash to buy an aquarium when she lost her wallet leaving a church in Dorr Township, Mich.

Bouterse said he was leaving a Boy Scout gathering at the church less than two weeks ago when he came across the wallet in a pile of snow.

"We're just so proud of him," the boy's mother Michelle Bouterse, 41, said.

In honor of the 11-year-old's honesty, state police Monday reportedly held a pizza party for his entire 30-member Boy Scout troop.